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let's bring in our panel, steve hays weekly standard. charles lane, washington post and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. charles? >> well, the numbers are tricky because when you get a drop in the rate and then you get this anemic job-- anemic increase in the numbers of jobs, they contradict each other. the reason that you can these contradictions, each of them comes from a completely different survey. the anemic rise in new jobs comes from the survey of employers and it's a huge and vast survey. where one out of every three employers is collected. whereas the unemployment rate comes from the survey of households where it's only 6/10 of 1% of 1% of all households are being surveyed. so, you've got a very small sample. it doesn't mean that one is right and the other is wrong, but it could mean that the second one where you have this very small one you could have huge fluctuation. we don't know which is right except for one things, austan goolsbee who was the president's economist says the only one you can rely on is gdp in the e
let's bring in our panel, steve hays weekly standard. charles lane, washington post and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. charles? >> well, the numbers are tricky because when you get a drop in the rate and then you get this anemic job-- anemic increase in the numbers of jobs, they contradict each other. the reason that you can these contradictions, each of them comes from a completely different survey. the anemic rise in new jobs comes from the survey of employers and it's a...
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good evening, steve. >> reporter: janelle, thanks. good evening from a suddenly blustery cold denver, where the gold tonight is political substance. when this debate gets started in less than an hour here at the university of denver, moderator jim lehrer will demand the studio audience not boo or hiss or applaud. no distractions, he'll say. so the voters, many, many millions watching from home, will get to concentrate on what these political competitors have to say. more than 60 million americans could watch tonight's debate. >> i've made up my mind. but i'd still like to see both of the candidates sweat a little bit. >> reporter: president obama looked relaxed this week. mitt romney too, but he knows he has to change perceptions tonight. more voters now see romney negatively than see him positively. and that loses elections. >> only two presidential candidates in the last 20 years of "the wall street journal"/nbc polling have had a net negative image at this point and one of them lost, george h.w. bush. and romney needs to improve th
good evening, steve. >> reporter: janelle, thanks. good evening from a suddenly blustery cold denver, where the gold tonight is political substance. when this debate gets started in less than an hour here at the university of denver, moderator jim lehrer will demand the studio audience not boo or hiss or applaud. no distractions, he'll say. so the voters, many, many millions watching from home, will get to concentrate on what these political competitors have to say. more than 60 million...
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>> steve: yes. daniel's a close second. >> jimmy: yeah. >> steve: and then a bunch of others. >> jimmy: i've just never seen a movie like "casino royale." the first five minutes was just unbelievable. >> steve: yeah. >> jimmy: yeah. it was just -- the most action thing ever. so, "skyfall"'s going to be -- >> steve: i can't wait. have you seen it? >> jimmy: no. >> steve: oh, i cannot wait. [ light laughter ] let's go together. >> jimmy: we should go. >> steve: yeah. >> jimmy: yeah, we'll go in the future, when it comes out. >> steve: yeah, we'll go -- [ light laughter ] i'll bring red vines. >> jimmy: did you watch the debate last night? i didn't hear from you. >> steve: yes, i did. >> jimmy: what did you think? >> steve: i thought it was -- you know -- great. >> jimmy: yeah. i thought romney did a pretty good job. >> steve: oh, i think -- yeah, i think it was -- >> jimmy: i think the thing everyone's talking about is jim lehrer. he just like -- he's the moderator. i think, like, he had no control ov
>> steve: yes. daniel's a close second. >> jimmy: yeah. >> steve: and then a bunch of others. >> jimmy: i've just never seen a movie like "casino royale." the first five minutes was just unbelievable. >> steve: yeah. >> jimmy: yeah. it was just -- the most action thing ever. so, "skyfall"'s going to be -- >> steve: i can't wait. have you seen it? >> jimmy: no. >> steve: oh, i cannot wait. [ light laughter ] let's go...
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the fundamental flaw as crypted by steve croft. they say it's not just islam it's the extremist wing of islam and name me another country other than indonesia and turkey where the fundamentalist islam has then nonviolent or promoted women or any other things. the newspapers all missed this because they don't have a religious perspective. >> rick: the assassination of our ambassador and two former seals. where was criticism, bumps in the road, where was the criticism in that comment? >> i think the wave in change and in the wave the change there is going to be bumps in in the road. i don't think he meant to suggest and most people did not interpret that the death of four american officials is a bump in the road. but there was so much in that 60 minutes interview, his calling netanyahu insistence on red line noise, there could have been so much followed up and wasn't. i'm really surprised. >> rick: when governor romney delivered his initial response after the attack on consulate in benghazi he was ganged up by the media. they coordin
the fundamental flaw as crypted by steve croft. they say it's not just islam it's the extremist wing of islam and name me another country other than indonesia and turkey where the fundamentalist islam has then nonviolent or promoted women or any other things. the newspapers all missed this because they don't have a religious perspective. >> rick: the assassination of our ambassador and two former seals. where was criticism, bumps in the road, where was the criticism in that comment?...
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i don't think mitt romney had much in the way of specificity other than to steve's appointment, backing away from the $5 trillion tax cut the president said he's proposed. i think there's a lot of unanswered questions still for governor romney. gerri: steven, do you believe that? the $5 trillion issue, you know, the president says every single day on the campaign trail that mitt romney will raise taxes on the middle class. was that sufficiently answered? >> i think it was. i thought that was the weakest point for mitt romney, the first two minutes where he backed away from the things he argued or not campaign trail and almost apologetic he's offering a tax cut. embrace the cut, gone on the offense of the tax cut if i was mitt romney. at one point after mitt romney said, look, mr. president, what you say is not true. it's not the case that it will necessarily result in a tax hike for the middle class. he said it three times, and the last time, president obama said, okay, because there's a new -- there's a column written by by colleague at the weekly standard who interview the the directo
i don't think mitt romney had much in the way of specificity other than to steve's appointment, backing away from the $5 trillion tax cut the president said he's proposed. i think there's a lot of unanswered questions still for governor romney. gerri: steven, do you believe that? the $5 trillion issue, you know, the president says every single day on the campaign trail that mitt romney will raise taxes on the middle class. was that sufficiently answered? >> i think it was. i thought that...
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steve, what have you got? >> yeah, well, you know, my favorite twitter was probably the romney zingers. there were fun ones over the weekend. we had fun ones on the show yesterday. and i think the picture of krystal is my favorite one. i think krystal mentioned this yesterday how twitter changed the real-time events, we have a more dramatic and serious example of it from this campaign, and that was paul ryan's acceptance speech at the republican convention, which was filled with some whoppers. but there was real-time fact-checking playing out on twitter as this was happening. you look at past elections, there might are been a stagger, a delay of a few days for a backlash to build against that speech or never a backlash at all. but because there's so much -- there's an inner connectedness between reporters, pundits, sort of activists, everybody is sort of in one place there on twitter, you know, all of the support material was provided in real time to debunk what ryan was saying. i think it affected the coverag
steve, what have you got? >> yeah, well, you know, my favorite twitter was probably the romney zingers. there were fun ones over the weekend. we had fun ones on the show yesterday. and i think the picture of krystal is my favorite one. i think krystal mentioned this yesterday how twitter changed the real-time events, we have a more dramatic and serious example of it from this campaign, and that was paul ryan's acceptance speech at the republican convention, which was filled with some...
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i agree with steve. this is mitt's moment. he said months ago to supporters just wait until i get on the stage with the president. just wait until i get to confront him, when i get to explain my version of reality versus his. that's when i'm going to shine. and he has to do it tonight. i agree with you and steve, that he has to be specific. he has to be detailed. partly because people haven't warmed to mitt romney as a person. they don't really trust him yet as a person. all the more important that he set out a specific plan, that makes sense. and that he does it in a humane way. i agree with steve. he has to be -- it's okay if he's serious but he has to make it clear that he wants the job. he wants to be hired by the american people for this job because he wants to help all of the american people. >> here's the problem -- >> and not just the rich people that he grew up with. >> howard, you hit on the problem. he's got a surrogate, bill clinton, a former president who has the mojo now. will clinton be ha
i agree with steve. this is mitt's moment. he said months ago to supporters just wait until i get on the stage with the president. just wait until i get to confront him, when i get to explain my version of reality versus his. that's when i'm going to shine. and he has to do it tonight. i agree with you and steve, that he has to be specific. he has to be detailed. partly because people haven't warmed to mitt romney as a person. they don't really trust him yet as a person. all the more important...
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[applause] borrowe >> tell steve i will read a coule of opening lines. -- i will read a couple of opening lines. give eveniood evening. ok. great. [laughter] you're at oxford, mississippi four years ago. the prompter is supposed to be there. it syaetayed dark. i remember, "good evening." i hope you feel very comfortable hearing about all my problems. [laughter] ok. we have two and a half minutes. ok. one minute and thirty seconds. ok. they lied. two minutes. they are testing us. [laughter] [laughter]
[applause] borrowe >> tell steve i will read a coule of opening lines. -- i will read a couple of opening lines. give eveniood evening. ok. great. [laughter] you're at oxford, mississippi four years ago. the prompter is supposed to be there. it syaetayed dark. i remember, "good evening." i hope you feel very comfortable hearing about all my problems. [laughter] ok. we have two and a half minutes. ok. one minute and thirty seconds. ok. they lied. two minutes. they are testing us....
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>> steve: probably not. meanwhile, have you ever wondered why songs get stuck in your head, like this one. ♪ going to give you up ♪ never gonna let you down ♪ never gonna run around ♪ . >> steve: can you hear what's in my head now? >> brian: no, just you. >> steve: the song stuck in your head means you're a little nutty? we're calling in a doctor to find out. >> martha: we're all nuts if it does. >> steve: "fox & friends" hour two for wednesday starts now. >> steve: yeah, that was not probably the song that would stick in my head. >> brian: you played along well. we don't know what's stick as soon as there. >> steve: with martha it's probably by one of the carpenters. >> martha: the one where we're never going to ever, ever get back together. >> brian: i hope this is a breakout hit because she's been struggling, taylor swift. can she -- everything she does becomes number one. america is drunk with taylor swift. >> steve: isn't she dating that 18-year-old kennedy kid now? >> brian: right. >> martha: s
>> steve: probably not. meanwhile, have you ever wondered why songs get stuck in your head, like this one. ♪ going to give you up ♪ never gonna let you down ♪ never gonna run around ♪ . >> steve: can you hear what's in my head now? >> brian: no, just you. >> steve: the song stuck in your head means you're a little nutty? we're calling in a doctor to find out. >> martha: we're all nuts if it does. >> steve: "fox & friends" hour two for...
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>> steve: he had an awful debate. now what they're doing, the democrats, they've decided we've got a new strategy. rather than painting mitt romney as an extremist, we're going to call him a liar. here is the head of the dnc communications department. listen. >> there has been plenty of people pointed out what a liar mitt romney is and was last night. i mean, testifies talking -- if he was speaking last night, he was lying. look, mitt romney had a good night. but, you know, even a blind squirrel gets a nut every now and then. >> steve: so that's the best they can do? >> it's not very good. you know, when he came out, when the president came out and he came out with that classic strut that he uses sometimes and my wife busted. she said, i don't like when you do it and i don't like when he does it. that kind of dashing walk. >> brian: why? >> because it's like i'm macho and i'm posturing, absolutely fake. i thought the telling moment happened almost immediately because it was his 20th anniversary with michelle. he has b
>> steve: he had an awful debate. now what they're doing, the democrats, they've decided we've got a new strategy. rather than painting mitt romney as an extremist, we're going to call him a liar. here is the head of the dnc communications department. listen. >> there has been plenty of people pointed out what a liar mitt romney is and was last night. i mean, testifies talking -- if he was speaking last night, he was lying. look, mitt romney had a good night. but, you know, even a...
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steve says they are basically a reset moving forward in watching the numbers tighten with momentum, the wind at his back. >> let me tell you something, thomas, this morning is a good morning to be a romney supporter. yes, i definitely think that mitt romney came back swinging and completely reset the election and gained new momentum and enthusiasm and did an incredible job last night and i have never been more proud of him. >> ron, ed schultz told me liberals are emotional and disappointed that the president was not more aggressive. and others say this is equivalent of the rnc convention, a big lackluster. >> he was a bit off his game. it's a bit like watching the team going into the fourth quarter and they start playing defense. they don't try to win anymore. if you don't try to win in politics, you're losing. president obama strangely enough led tior let time after time pa, i don't have a tax plan that costs $5 trillion. time after time mitt romney came out with the real whoppers and president obama just kind of let it go. he's going to have to change that dynamic in the next debate.
steve says they are basically a reset moving forward in watching the numbers tighten with momentum, the wind at his back. >> let me tell you something, thomas, this morning is a good morning to be a romney supporter. yes, i definitely think that mitt romney came back swinging and completely reset the election and gained new momentum and enthusiasm and did an incredible job last night and i have never been more proud of him. >> ron, ed schultz told me liberals are emotional and...
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ste steve kornacki, co-host of "the cycle." you start with your biggest clue. you've said already, i've seen on my screen, who's winning the definition, meaning who's defining the debate in their terms. how does that go? explain. >> romney has always wanted this race to be a referendum. he's made a mistake because people have of telegraphing their big question, do you want another four years like the last four years? if the president wants a strong comeback, he can pull the debate into what he's done the last few months, the ground of choice. who stands up for the middle class, who favors the few, build prosperity by strengthening the middle class, who believes in trickle down. whoever wins that battle for defense is most likely to be the winner of the debate. >> steve, that brings up the question. he says, let's not go back to bush, could almost guarantee romney will then say, don't blame all our troubles on bush. and then you got that surrebuttal, final punch, oh, yeah how are you different from bush? something like that. >> right. there's been a pact in the
ste steve kornacki, co-host of "the cycle." you start with your biggest clue. you've said already, i've seen on my screen, who's winning the definition, meaning who's defining the debate in their terms. how does that go? explain. >> romney has always wanted this race to be a referendum. he's made a mistake because people have of telegraphing their big question, do you want another four years like the last four years? if the president wants a strong comeback, he can pull the...
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steve, good to see you, thanks for being here. >> good to be here, david. david: the republican message, what's he got to make clear about the limit of the role of the government in our lives? >> well, i think if you talk to most business people, they say there's three legitimate roles for government in business. the first is regulation. from a regulatory stand point, the role of the government is to level the playing field, establish the boundaries, make sure that consumers are not getting hurt, but then get out of the way and let businesses compete, not continue to change the rules of the game once you're into the game, not continue to issue regulation after regulation. that is the regulation. second is taxation. america's taxed as the highest rate in the world. there's loopholes, and peek talk about it. the extraordinary rates drive investments overseas and diminish job creation here in the u.s.. we have over $2 trillion in cash sitting on balance sheets of u.s. corporations. taxation is an important area the government needs to lower and level the playi
steve, good to see you, thanks for being here. >> good to be here, david. david: the republican message, what's he got to make clear about the limit of the role of the government in our lives? >> well, i think if you talk to most business people, they say there's three legitimate roles for government in business. the first is regulation. from a regulatory stand point, the role of the government is to level the playing field, establish the boundaries, make sure that consumers are not...
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steve, you were there in denver. what's your take? >> looking at that obama response, i think everybody says why didn't you say it to his face? why didn't you say that last night? i think, look, it's pretty well established by this point why this was such a disastrous debate for obama. i'll play a quick clip here, and this is a jumping-off point to talk about what he needs to do in the next debates to avoid a repeat of this. let's play a clip of an opening romney gave him that he completely missed. >> i'm not looking to cut massive taxes and reduce the revenues going to the government. my number one principle is there's no tax cut that adds to the deficit. i want to underline that. virtually everything you said about my tax plan is inaccurate. so if the tax plan he described were a tax plan i was asked to support, i'd say absolutely not. i'm not looking for 5i trillion tax cut. i won't put in a place a tax cut that adds to the deficit. i'm not in favor of a $5 trillion tax cut. that's not my plan. >> that's three different moments dur
steve, you were there in denver. what's your take? >> looking at that obama response, i think everybody says why didn't you say it to his face? why didn't you say that last night? i think, look, it's pretty well established by this point why this was such a disastrous debate for obama. i'll play a quick clip here, and this is a jumping-off point to talk about what he needs to do in the next debates to avoid a repeat of this. let's play a clip of an opening romney gave him that he...
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at the university of denver, i'm steve handelsman, news4. now back to you. >>> you can watch tonight's debate here on nbc 4, live coverage at 9:00. and you can find a watch party by going to our home page on nbc washington.com. >>> a 15-year-old girl groped while walking down the street. the fifth reported incident of an assault in springfield in the past month. pat collins explains why the recent attacks have the people there on edge. pat? >> reporter: jim, now it appears there may be a fifth victim in this string of fondling attacks. police out in springfield investigating a series of fondling attacks on young women here. today a detective talking to yet another victim. we call her rosa. she says she was attacked on september 19th as she was coming home with her daughter. she spoke through an interpreter. >> translator: we were walking down the sidewalk, when all of a sudden i felt somebody walking behind me. once i turned around, he started touching me. touching me around my breasts. and then i started screaming and my daughter started sc
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and steve hayez. steve, you are first? >> look, i mean, it's an interesting video. but i don't think it tells us much that many people didn't already think about president obama. he has become much more sophisticated in these arguments. but i think at the end of the day, he is making a similar argument today, high is, effect in effect, pretty open about the class warfare argument. it is not as explicit, but the philosophy is the same. this doesn't surprise me to see this. >> the national attitudes are set on president obottom a. people have seen him come into their living room, ever day for four years. they have a sense of who he is as a person. so as these videos come out, it is going to be hard for them to really shake things up with the independent and swing voters, which are who matters in november. >> it is not only rich and poor, it is black and white as well. he makes specific racial arguems. in ept -- 2002, the time of enron, everybody's talking about enron. he talks about enron, using tax accountants and tax loopholes to make money and -- and... and mistrea
and steve hayez. steve, you are first? >> look, i mean, it's an interesting video. but i don't think it tells us much that many people didn't already think about president obama. he has become much more sophisticated in these arguments. but i think at the end of the day, he is making a similar argument today, high is, effect in effect, pretty open about the class warfare argument. it is not as explicit, but the philosophy is the same. this doesn't surprise me to see this. >> the...
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steve schaeffer. steve, where you are you from? >> i wanted your autograph. i'm from philadelphia. >> jimmy: from philly. good man. the roots are from philly. they love you. all right, so i don't even have to ask this question but the nfl season is in full swing. who is your favorite football team? >> the philadelphia eagles! ♪ >> jimmy: all right. very good. guys, we have our pal here, steve schaeffer. for five bucks, you get an original steve schaeffer pendant. they're from -- >> for your birthdays. >> jimmy: he's from philadelphia, which i'm sure you're familiar with. the roots are from philly. and his favorite team, of course, is the philadelphia eagles. [ cheers and applause ] for this first song, the new james bond movie is coming out, "skyfall," and nothing's better than a james bond theme. so, could you do this in like a james bondy-type of theme? >> you want us to dance? >> jimmy: it's tricky. no. you can just be a spy. you can pretend you're a spy. >> okay. ♪ he's in the audience his name is steven schaeffer he's wearing a necklace made by his s
steve schaeffer. steve, where you are you from? >> i wanted your autograph. i'm from philadelphia. >> jimmy: from philly. good man. the roots are from philly. they love you. all right, so i don't even have to ask this question but the nfl season is in full swing. who is your favorite football team? >> the philadelphia eagles! ♪ >> jimmy: all right. very good. guys, we have our pal here, steve schaeffer. for five bucks, you get an original steve schaeffer pendant....
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thank you, mark mckinnon, steve, too. tonight it's 10:00 eastern watch a special friday night campaign edition of "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. 10:00 eastern on msnbc, the place for politics. ♪ [ honk! ] ♪ [ honk! ] ♪ [ honk! ] ♪ [ male announcer ] now you'll know when to stop. [ honk! ] the all-new nissan altima with easy fill tire alert. [ honk! ] it's our most innovative altima ever. nissan. innovation that excites. ♪ >>> well, guess who showed up at a mitt romney campaign event in be aington, virginia, today? yep, big bird himself. the obama campaign was happy to point out that a guy in a big bird suit was in attendance today carrying a sign that said, crack down on wall street, not sesame street. pretty good stuff. we'll be right back. online outfit piccolo headphones buy now broadway show megapixels place to sleep little roadster war and peace deep sea diving ninja app hipster glasses 5% cash back sign up to get 5% everywhere online through december. only from discover. flavor, meet food. it's t
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. >> steve: thank you very much. other big news this morning, even more details emerging on the terrorist attack on our consulate in benghazi, libya. the state department confirming there were over a dozen threats in the months before. katherine hedge live in washington with the details. >> good morning. a letter from the house government oversight committee is asking the state department to provide at least two witnesses for the hearing on security lapses next week, including state department regional security officer eric nordstrom who was stationed in libya from september last year until june 2012. the committee led by republican darrell issa with ranking member cummings was briefed by nordstrom who confirmed 13 threats against the u.s. consulate in the six months before the terrorist attack and that the mission made repeated requests for extra security. this notice will be published by the state department about his internal investigation into the attack known as accountability review board or arb. it reads in pa
. >> steve: thank you very much. other big news this morning, even more details emerging on the terrorist attack on our consulate in benghazi, libya. the state department confirming there were over a dozen threats in the months before. katherine hedge live in washington with the details. >> good morning. a letter from the house government oversight committee is asking the state department to provide at least two witnesses for the hearing on security lapses next week, including state...
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here to explain all of that, our senior economics reporter steve leisman. steve? >> sue, thanks very much. sue, this number is a product of simple math. but whether it's telling us about the real strength of the job market is something investors and the fed are going to have to think long and hard about. take a look at how we got here. first a little bit of the math. the unemployment rate is calculated by essentially taking the number of unemployment and simply dividing it by the labor force. plug in the numbers. 7.8% unemployment rate gives us -- calculates from 12.1 million unemployed divided by the 155.1 million labor force. you can do that at home, if you like. and now here's what happened this month. okay? the number of unemployed dropped by nearly half a million. down by 456,000. the number of employed in this household survey up by 873,000. but wait, because the one thing we're watching here is the number of people who were employed but were part-time but they wanted full time work. we call it for economic reasons. up by 582,000. that's the third september
here to explain all of that, our senior economics reporter steve leisman. steve? >> sue, thanks very much. sue, this number is a product of simple math. but whether it's telling us about the real strength of the job market is something investors and the fed are going to have to think long and hard about. take a look at how we got here. first a little bit of the math. the unemployment rate is calculated by essentially taking the number of unemployment and simply dividing it by the labor...
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steve, does he have a point? >> no. what's the old saying? that dog won't hunt. i don't think you can criticize barack obama on his foreign policy achievements. it's a tough world out there. it's complicated. things don't always happen the way we want them to, but they have done a terrific job of handling very difficult situations. they killed osama bin laden. i think they have a record to stand on that the president can proudly go to the debates and argue with mitt romney about what he's going to do about some very difficult situations overseas. >> gentlemen, good to see you. thank you. >>> there is new violence that we told you about in afghanistan. a suicide bomber killed 14 people including three american soldiers in the volatile eastern khost province. nbc's richard engel joins me from kabul with the latest. i understand the taliban is claiming responsibility for the attack? >> the taliban says it was responsible for this. a suicide bomber walked up to an american patrol. it was americans who were walking joint patrol with afghan police as actually this amer
steve, does he have a point? >> no. what's the old saying? that dog won't hunt. i don't think you can criticize barack obama on his foreign policy achievements. it's a tough world out there. it's complicated. things don't always happen the way we want them to, but they have done a terrific job of handling very difficult situations. they killed osama bin laden. i think they have a record to stand on that the president can proudly go to the debates and argue with mitt romney about what he's...
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>> i do. >> steve see you back in a bit? >> we'll talk about draghi at 8:30 and jobless claims. >>> right now breaking news, julia boorstin has more on what's happening with facebook. >> that's right, the facebook announcing it has 1 billion monthly active users and 600 million mobile users, mark zuckerberg saying, making this announcement saying "i'm committed to working each day to make facebook better for you and hopefully one day we'll be able to connect the rest of the world." this is a major milestone for the company. facebook hit 500 million active users, doubling its size in two years. mark zuckerberg taped an interview with matt lauer airing exclusively on the "today" show shortly, that sitdown his first since the ipo coming up later this afternoon. >> yesterday afternoon i saw a headline, facebook is going to charge you $7 if you want to send posts, headlines to your friends. sounded crazy. >> facebook is testing all sorts of different ad models and facebook gives you the option of paying to promote your post to yo
>> i do. >> steve see you back in a bit? >> we'll talk about draghi at 8:30 and jobless claims. >>> right now breaking news, julia boorstin has more on what's happening with facebook. >> that's right, the facebook announcing it has 1 billion monthly active users and 600 million mobile users, mark zuckerberg saying, making this announcement saying "i'm committed to working each day to make facebook better for you and hopefully one day we'll be able to...
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steve forbes follows up and says welch is right. does governor romney put any stock in those theories and have any suspicions at all about the bls numbers? >> george, the numbers themselves are very damning. when you look at it, we had fewer jobs created in september than were created in august, fewer jobs created in august than were created in july. our unemployment rate has come down because for -- since president obama took office for every new job created more than six workers have left the labor force. if labor force participation was what it was when the president took office, unemployment would be around 10.7%. these jobs that were added in september were largely part-time jobs. so we still have 23 million american, that number has not changed at all, would are either unemployed or out of work entirely or are underemployed working or out of the workforce entirely or underemployed working part time instead of full time or not in a job commensurate with their skills, half of the college students coming out of, you know, with de
steve forbes follows up and says welch is right. does governor romney put any stock in those theories and have any suspicions at all about the bls numbers? >> george, the numbers themselves are very damning. when you look at it, we had fewer jobs created in september than were created in august, fewer jobs created in august than were created in july. our unemployment rate has come down because for -- since president obama took office for every new job created more than six workers have...
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i'm joined by ed schultz, reverend al sharpton, chris hayes, and steve schmidt. lawrence o'donnell will be our man in the spin room tonight. and the one and only chris matthews is at the university of denver, which is the site of tonight's debate. chris, i've been watching you this past hour. i can sense the excitement that you feel, that i feel as well. i mean, it is a big night when these candidates speak at their conventions, but tonight the tv audience for this debate could be almost twice the size as the convention audience. just a huge night. what are each of these guys thinking they need to do tonight? >> well, i think obama's the one i'm focused on, the president. because everybody's been talking about, it's romney's big chance, it's romney's opportunity, blah, blah, blah. suppose obama goes on the attack tonight. suppose he surprises everybody and doesn't play defense. he doesn't try to handle his opponent and clinch, that he really goes and tries to put him away. and i think that's the significanti i significanting question. how does romney deal with th
i'm joined by ed schultz, reverend al sharpton, chris hayes, and steve schmidt. lawrence o'donnell will be our man in the spin room tonight. and the one and only chris matthews is at the university of denver, which is the site of tonight's debate. chris, i've been watching you this past hour. i can sense the excitement that you feel, that i feel as well. i mean, it is a big night when these candidates speak at their conventions, but tonight the tv audience for this debate could be almost twice...
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. >> steve murphy worked with dukasis. >> they will not let you ride in the tank without wearing a helmet. >> john: it turned into this commercial. >> do ads like that really work. consultants think they do. they still rave about this ad. it ran only once, they say it changed all campaigns. it was the first negative ad to use fear and raw emotion. >> ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one --. >> these are the stakes we must either love each other or we must die. >> vote or die, pretty relevant. >> john: but pretty unfair. >> he worked on the bush campaign that ran this ad consoling 9/11 victims. >> i took ashley in my arms and embraced her. it was that moment we saw her eyes fill up with tears. >> you are playing this music and we are supposed to vote for this guy because she tears up. >> that is exactly what they did. the ad aired in ohio and it was pivotal. >> john: this ad also was aired. >> more men and women will go to work than ever before in our history. >> i see this ad coming on television. it's this farmer and beautiful pasture. they put their hands over the h
. >> steve murphy worked with dukasis. >> they will not let you ride in the tank without wearing a helmet. >> john: it turned into this commercial. >> do ads like that really work. consultants think they do. they still rave about this ad. it ran only once, they say it changed all campaigns. it was the first negative ad to use fear and raw emotion. >> ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one --. >> these are the stakes we must either love each...
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is not steve jobs. >> i knew steve jobs and mark zuckerberg is no steve jobs. >> what would make a difference if he changed his wardrobe? you would be happy? >> it might be like sampson cutting his hair in the bible. he changes his t-shirt and suddenly he loses all of his internet powers. >> i don't know if you knew him when you were at your alma mater but i feel like there's something about growing out of college. >> i deny anything i did at my alma mater on a regular basis. >> my own unsolicited advice is equally large reach, which is to oprah. >> oh. >> oprah, who is still a goddess to me and virtually every woman i know, has a very big voice. and oprah's endorsement of what was at stake in 2008 in that election was very powerful. and oprah speaking out, other women speaking out, we have a candidate on the republican side who wants to relitigate -- talk about litigating, wants to relitigate fights women have had and we thought we won for the last 50 years. mitt romney wants to take us back, the republican-dominated congress and senate would take us back to those fights all over again. opra
is not steve jobs. >> i knew steve jobs and mark zuckerberg is no steve jobs. >> what would make a difference if he changed his wardrobe? you would be happy? >> it might be like sampson cutting his hair in the bible. he changes his t-shirt and suddenly he loses all of his internet powers. >> i don't know if you knew him when you were at your alma mater but i feel like there's something about growing out of college. >> i deny anything i did at my alma mater on a...